Staged Narrative: Poetics and the Messenger in Greek Tragedy

Contents

Acknowledgments xi List of Abbreviations xiv Preface xv Introduction 1 1. Aeschylus’s Persians: The Messenger and Epic Narrative 23 2. The Literary Messenger, the Tragic Messenger 56 3. Euripides’ Bacchae: The Spectator in the Text 102 CONTENTS 4. Homer and the Art of Fiction in Sophocles’ Electra 132 5. Rhesos and Poetic Tradition 168 6. Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus: Epistemology and Tragic Practice 190 Appendix: Messengers in Greek Tragedy 223 Works Cited 225 Index Locorum 239 General Index 245 ...